ASP.NET Core, Blazor, .NET, Azure, SharePoint, IoT
My last posting about cloud covered new features of Windows Azure. One of the new features available is Remote Desktop access to Windows Azure role instances. In this posting I will show you how to get connected to Windows Azure web role using Remote Desktop.
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Pex and Moles is new testing and code analysis technology that is created by Microsoft Research. Pex is powerful tool
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I ported views of my ASP.NET MVC application from ASP.NET to Razor. Although Razor is very new it is very promising view engine because of shorter and cleaner syntax. In this posting I will show you same view on ASP.NET and Razor view engine. I like Razor one more but what do you think?
Read moreI am using StructureMap as my IoC container. In my ASP.NET MVC web application I have controller factory based on StructureMap. I found interesting problem – when running my web application on development web server I get ArgumentNullException with every request to some controller action. In this posting I will describe why it is happening and how to avoid it.
Read moreWith ASP.NET MVC 3 RC there is change in IControllerFactory interface. This interface includes new method called GetControllerSessionBehavior(). This method returns value from SessionStateBehavior enum. ASP.NET MVC uses this method to find out how to handle session for given controller.
Read moreThose who are still using older versions of Visual Studio may find the free e-book “Moving to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010” useful when deciding if it is time to move to Visual Studio 2010 or not. The book is written by Ken Haines, Pascal Paré and Patrice Pelland who all work in Microsoft Consumer and Online Division.
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I needed a quick’n’dirty way to inspect objects returned from external source. I wrote simple object properties dumping mechanism you can use to investigate unknown objects. It is really quick and really dirty.
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Some of my readers have problem with detecting correct namespaces to include in code samples. Here is how to get references in place using Visual Studio IDE. You can let Visual Studio to solve references to types that have no namespaces for them included in code file. Move cursor to unreferenced type, right click on it with mouse, select Resolve and then select correct type
Read moreIn my previous posting about WebImage helper I introduced how to use WebImage for different image manipulations. In this posting I will show you how to build simple online image editor using WebImage helper.
Read moreLately I blogged about global action filters in ASP.NET MVC 3. Yesterday I found cool article from Nick Berardi’s Coder Journal where he introduces how to use action filters to measure running time of ASP.NET MVC controllers. And here is my experiment – how to use global action filters to find out how long controller actions are running. You just need couple of lines of code.
Read moreDuring PDC10 Anders Hejlsberg announced Visual Studio Async CTP when speaking about new stuff in C# and VB.NET next versions. In this posting I will introduce the background of Visual Studio Async and I will provide you with links to different resources so you can get started immediately.
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Yesterday I attended at local community evening where one of the most famous Estonian MVPs – Henn Sarv – spoke
Read moreThis far I have blogged about WebImage and Chart helpers. Now let’s see another new helper – WebMail – that you can easily use to send e-mails. WebMail is easy to configure and extremely easy to use. In this posting I will show you simple feedback form that uses WebMail to send feedback messages.
Read moreSometimes we need server-side comments in ASP.NET MVC views. New version of Razor view engine supports comments in views and
Read moreFirst new helper in ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta I blogged about was chart helper. In this posting I will introduce
Read moreOne of the new features of Razor view engine is support for strongly-typed models. In this posting I will show you how to use strongly-typed model with Razor using simple view page.
Read moreTo follow better DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) principle Razor views support now defaults that are applied to all views in ASP.NET MVC web application. Default can be applied by special file so you have one place where everything common is defined. In this posting I will show you how defaults work and how to use them.
Read moreIn my previous posting about charts in ASP.NET MVC 3 I gave you basic idea about how to use them.
Read moreASP.NET MVC does not have built-in support for chart control and that’s why I worked out my own solution to make ASP.NET MVC support chart control. With ASP.NET MVC 3 we will get official support for charts right out of the box. In this posting I will show you how to use charts in ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta.
Read moreI played with Bing Maps AJAX-based API and found it to be very easy to use after you know basic objects and you are able to use them. In this posting I will show you simple example about how to add pushpins to map and how to show coordinates of pushpins to users.
Read moreLately I wrote about how to make a lot of asynchronous calls to web services during ASP.NET page processing. Now
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